In general: 100% anonymity is a myth, but there is a lot you can do with smoke and mirrors. Tips that made sense to me:

- subscribe to a VPN using another VPN (1st subscription ever must be a cliffhanger kinda )- Subscribe/communicate to anything via vpn and with a disposeable weirdname@obscure.com account- pay with bitcoins. bitcoins are never 100% untraceable.. but it helps.- use vpn+tor combination for max security with "layered onion" nodes.. but slow since p2p torrents clog the tor network usually.- what is true today.. may have changed tomorrow. Corps and Govs will always fight citizens anonymity with tech and law.

fwiw, i dont believe in these generic vpn systems and suspect many (most? all?) of them are either honey pots by the relevant agencies or dodgy traffic sharers which may leave you open to criminal charges at a later stage/

i do believe in encryption and being in control of your data flows, personally im throwing my 'vpn' dollars at linux hostingin various countries and i ssh tunnel things as i see fit.

this is probably too difficult for some but hey, i felt i should mention that any vpn service which is successful enough to be an ongoing system will attract the attention of certain folks that drove you to using a vpn service in the first place.

if all you want is to get around geo blocking on streaming services, its safe for the moment, maybe, depending on which FTA nightmares your gubmint has agreed to.

using a dodgy email address doesnt achieve anything and chaining your vpns is perhaps not achieving much (depending)

remember they have your ip address and what servers you connect to from the isp, this leaves much of the popular wisdom horseshit.

“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

Think you are right Noddy. VPN service providers are also obliged by law to log your IP like any ISP as well as the sites you visit. It is possible though to combine VPN with Tor which skips your ISP who doesn't know you use TOR, but then again the VPN server knows. And indeed.. to go there makes you a suspect so there is cost/benefit which probably ends up nil.

Tom Bennett, the government's expert on pupil behaviour, said teachers had been "dazzled" by school computers.

The report from the OECD examines the impact of school technology on international test results, such as the Pisa tests, which are taken in more than 70 countries and measure digital skills.

It says education systems which have invested heavily in information and communications technology have seen "no noticeable improvement" in Pisa test results for reading, mathematics or science.Unplugged

"If you look at the best-performing education systems, such as those in East Asia, they've been very cautious about using technology in their classrooms," said Mr Schleicher.

"Those students who use tablets and computers very often tend to do worse than those who use them moderately."

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“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA

with the amount of jobs now that are either directly 'computer' (programming, administration, repair) or just require proficiency in operating one, im wondering if this study is beating up a strawman.

i think the main benefit of learning a computer is being able to participate in the modern world, its not going to help any other discipline, the people that claim it will have watched too many apple ads.

noddy wrote:with the amount of jobs now that are either directly 'computer' (programming, administration, repair) or just require proficiency in operating one, im wondering if this study is beating up a strawman.

i think the main benefit of learning a computer is being able to participate in the modern world, its not going to help any other discipline, the people that claim it will have watched too many apple ads.

an wot is the main benfit of bean abel to particulate in the modern world?

the good news: there appears to be about 320 million different opinions about America is.the bad news: except for mine, they're all wrong.

When you have an anti-racist hammer in your hand, you tend to see everyone who disagrees with you as a racist.

noddy wrote:with the amount of jobs now that are either directly 'computer' (programming, administration, repair) or just require proficiency in operating one, im wondering if this study is beating up a strawman.

i think the main benefit of learning a computer is being able to participate in the modern world, its not going to help any other discipline, the people that claim it will have watched too many apple ads.

an wot is the main benfit of bean abel to particulate in the modern world?

noddy wrote:with the amount of jobs now that are either directly 'computer' (programming, administration, repair) or just require proficiency in operating one, im wondering if this study is beating up a strawman.

i think the main benefit of learning a computer is being able to participate in the modern world, its not going to help any other discipline, the people that claim it will have watched too many apple ads.

That's like saying that the main thing I learned in school was to sit at a desk for hours, doing things I wasn't particularly interested in.

“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA

Simple Minded wrote:Weird how even computers (both machines and people) always lead ya back to Freud, innit?

i seem to remember freud putting too much importance on the tittays and not enough on the beer.

YMix wrote:That's like saying that the main thing I learned in school was to sit at a desk for hours, doing things I wasn't particularly interested in.

cough, ermm, umm , yeh ?

despite all the protestations of the literature crowd, i seriously doubt the post gutenburg, reading for all stage led to an improvement in the skills of the artisans who previously used word of mouth.

“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

I had used the Opera browser for years until that group did not release a 64 bit version and started to dumb their product down.Apparently there was a split in the company. For a while Opera was owned by the planet's best e-mail service, Fastmail,but that did not work out.

Both Google Chrome and MS Edge are okay, but each keep trying to suck one into their own private Idaho.My preference between the two is Google as it is based on the Chromium framework.

Anyways, the Opera founders started to develop a new browser, in Iceland, aimed at the same so-called power users whose requirements Opera once met.The new browser project is called Vivaldi and with the recent upgrade in HTML5 video support, it is now ready to be my main browser.

As Vivaldi is also based on Chromium, it also supports all the Google extensions.